Whats the most selfless thing you've ever done?

Sherifu

Not sure what mine is yet.
Need to think about it.

tman

yore ma!

Sherifu

tman wrote:

yore ma!

:rolleyes:

alleepally

Wasn't there an episode of Seinfeld where they argued that there is no such thing a selfless act. e.g. if you do something for someone (even if they don't know about it) you will still feel good about it so therefore there is an element of you doing something to feel good and hence it's not a selfless act?

_blank_

Probably not the most selfless thing I ever done, but one saturday night I saw a bum sitting outside a bar in town, I was out having a smoke, and he was asking people for money.

I went back in and got him a few smokes.

He was really thanking me too.

btw, excellent tman, cracked me up anyways!

Blisterman

That was friends not seinfeld I think.

alleepally

Blisterman wrote:

That was friends not seinfeld I think.

Now that you've said it, I think you're right. Mind you, it does sound more like something Seinfeld and pals would argue about!

CathyMoran

Left a group of friends so that one of the guys who used to fancy me could get together with one of my then best friends without feeling akward...they are married years now but I never got back in contact with them and I really miss him but it was the right thing to do - he never knew.

alleepally

CathyMoran wrote:

Left a group of friends so that one of the guys who used to fancy me could get together with one of my then best friends without feeling akward...they are married years now but I never got back in contact with them and I really miss him but it was the right thing to do - he never knew.

I've got a lump in my throat after reading that.. What an amazing thing to do. Kudos.

CathyMoran

alleepally wrote:

I've got a lump in my throat after reading that.. What an amazing thing to do. Kudos.

Thanks He was my first male friend when I was a teenager so it was very hard in that way, but I have seen the two of them together once or twice and that made it worth it...

segadreamcast

Nope, it was Seinfeld - I think I have the script for it on here somewhere...

mp3guy

it was seinfeld and friends

Caesar_Bojangle

where is smuckers when you need him?

radiospan

CathyMoran wrote:

Left a group of friends so that one of the guys who used to fancy me could get together with one of my then best friends without feeling akward...they are married years now but I never got back in contact with them and I really miss him but it was the right thing to do - he never knew.

Aw. That's so cool!

I think there was something about a selfless act in Friends, but I don't think it was about how there's no such thing as one.

So it's probably from Seinfeld.

ixoy

mp3guy wrote:

it was seinfeld and friends

Found it! Sheesh I'm sad:
Friends - 5x4 - The One Where Pheobe Hates PBS

Rachel: Maybe Joey's right. Maybe all good deeds are selfish.
Phoebe: I will find a selfless good deed. 'Cause I just gave birth to three children and I will not let them be raised in a world where Joey is right.

There ya go!

Sleepy

I don't know if there's such a thing as a unselfish action but I've done some pretty nice things, though I do get a real kick out of doing them.

I've paid for a homeless kids to stay in Hostels in town twice, I rarely give the homeless cash and tend to just bring them to a hostel and pay for their stay for the night instead.

I never refuse a homeless person a cigarette if asked for one.

elivsvonchiaing

Being the selfish cúnt I am giving smokes away is just about where the selfless bit ends with me. I read Kevin Myers today (Irishman's diary) (omg! yesterday), where he wrote about a girl on the Luas in a wheelchair (self-propelled) - he mentioned in any other European country she would have a motorised jobbie - I just sincerely hope she was offered one and refused it :eek: ... or is Mr Myers right :eek: :eek:

Think the most selfless people are often not represented in history accurately ever. Personally I think Brendan Behan deserves recognition for "The Borstal Boy" - think this did more for peace talks than the whole lot of the rest of them! Gave them food for thought!

I believe writing this was a selfless act - a sacrifice for him - probably painfull!

Caesar_Bojangle

how the hell do you pronounce your name?

klap trap

i once gave biscuits to my granny's dog even though she said he couldn't have any. beat that

elivsvonchiaing

Caesar_Bojangle wrote:

how the hell do you pronounce your name?

When I get back from the pub exactly as spelt Normally Elvis - oh and teutonic "Von" no real difference here. "Chiaing" - something like "Tcheeeang"- I would get into further detail on this - it's just too late at night - if you really want to know go to next board beers

LegacyUser

CathyMoran wrote:

Left a group of friends so that one of the guys who used to fancy me could get together with one of my then best friends without feeling akward...they are married years now but I never got back in contact with them and I really miss him but it was the right thing to do - he never knew.

jesus christ! that is so good of you. How did you do it? Like just leave the friends etc?

monument

elivsvonchiaing wrote:

Being the selfish cúnt I am giving smokes away is just about where the selfless bit ends with me. I read Kevin Myers today (Irishman's diary) (omg! yesterday), where he wrote about a girl on the Luas in a wheelchair (self-propelled) - he mentioned in any other European country she would have a motorised jobbie - I just sincerely hope she was offered one and refused it :eek: ... or is Mr Myers right :eek: :eek:

I try not to read his stuff much, but I felt that one was a bit of a copout; complain, complain, complain, is what is expected of him. He praised the bus from the airport to the city centre (and it was a normal bus), then he seamed to even like the Luas, until the girl in wheelchair made him feel bad about him self.

Neuro

All human actions are borne out of self-interest and is the fundamental reason why democracy is the preferred form of government and capitalism the preferred form of market economy.

Mr. CooL ICE

Nothing really, i'm quite a selfish bast*rd. Not too selfish, but i just don't go out of my way be be selfless. If i do someone a favour, i expect something in return, cos my philosophy in life is to treat others how you'd want to be treated.

sixpack's little hat

I replied to your thread

mayordenis

i havent killed anyone thats the best i can come up with

BrookieD

I looked after my granddad while he was dying of cancer this year, It was the best two months we had together. It was the best way to thank him for all he did for me!

Evilution

One sentence: If you love her, you'll let her go. I did and, again, I did.

Bugger. Damn selfless acts.

Dr. Loon

I haven't hunted any of you people down to kill you.




Yet.


Other than that. Eh. Too many to mention.

Blub2k4

By putting it down here, that is to count it as selfless that means you are claiming it as a good deed, which removes the selfless part so to post the acts here becomes selfish, something like the friends scenario.
Very few actions are selfless.
This thread strikes me as an attempt as ego massaging, not something that "selfless" people tend to do.

Zombienosh

haha........


*tumble weed rolls past*




..... :rolleyes:

Cactus Col

Blub2k4 wrote:

By putting it down here, that is to count it as selfless that means you are claiming it as a good deed, which removes the selfless part so to post the acts here becomes selfish, something like the friends scenario.
Very few actions are selfless.
This thread strikes me as an attempt as ego massaging, not something that "selfless" people tend to do.

Sorry blub ( I always seem to have a different opinion to you! I don't mean to) ... but the original act / good deed remains unselfish, it's the act of talking about it / writing it down that becomes selfish.

For example ... If I stand up on the bus to let an elderly lady sit down, just so I can tell people how chivalours (spelling?) I am, then that's a selfish act, and so is the boasting about it later.

However ... If I stand up for an elderly lady on the bus, because I think she needs the seat more than I do, then that is an unselfish act, and remains unselfish if I tell people about it later. The telling about it later is the selfish act.

or something

bringitdown

I once left the room in order to fart, that deed was selfless as I benefited others and inconvenienced my self by having to remove myself from the couch. I did not feel better for doing so.

Zapho

I was doing the whole "I know what you're thinking, did I shoot five bullets or did I shoot 6" thing to this punk back in Nam, and when I pulled the trigger, turned out that I had fired 6, which resulted in an awakeward silence for a few minutes......I don't really know where I'm going with this......

pickarooney

Zapho wrote:

I was doing the whole "I know what you're thinking, did I shoot five bullets or did I shoot 6" thing to this punk back in Nam, and when I pulled the trigger, turned out that I had fired 6, which resulted in an awakeward silence for a few minutes......I don't really know where I'm going with this......

Rathfar-Nam?

Zapho

No, Veitnam!
More to the point I guess mind would also be the "If you love her let her go" thing. But infairness, whats the point in doing that? Love by its very nature is going to be somewhat selfish, if you love someone then you shouldn't have to "let them go", you should keep going until you end up with who it is you love! I've been such an idiot!!!!

Blub2k4

Cactus Col wrote:

Sorry blub ( I always seem to have a different opinion to you! I don't mean to) ... but the original act / good deed remains unselfish, it's the act of talking about it / writing it down that becomes selfish.

For example ... If I stand up on the bus to let an elderly lady sit down, just so I can tell people how chivalours (spelling?) I am, then that's a selfish act, and so is the boasting about it later.

However ... If I stand up for an elderly lady on the bus, because I think she needs the seat more than I do, then that is an unselfish act, and remains unselfish if I tell people about it later. The telling about it later is the selfish act.

or something

I see your point but to recount it here means that you originally counted it, a selfless act would not occur as such in the first place.......

Blub2k4

If the question was about selfless acts you had experienced then you could recount about somebody you saw/knew who did something.

Sherifu

Blub2k4 wrote:

If the question was about selfless acts you had experienced then you could recount about somebody you saw/knew who did something.

You shoulda been a lawyer.

cajun_tiger

i was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and it was a very hot june. was walking with a load of shopping bags where so heavy. and i seen a nun from my primary school strugling with very large water bottles she was going to the grave yard to water the plants because it was such a hot day, so with my own burdens of shopping and baby in belly. i help this old lady (whom used to beat me with a wooden ruler) and carried the watter battles up and helped her water every grave that had a living plant on it!!!

then she gave me loads because i wasn't married and what a sin thist was ect ect... blah de Fing blah

cajun_tiger

heres a question right

why don't men either help a women laiden with buggy baby shopping get on a bus???
why is it only another women (who probably already has her kids and baggage on the bus )??
what is it with men and the total lack of gental men these days???

Zapho

cajun_tiger wrote:

heres a question right

why don't men either help a women laiden with buggy baby shopping get on a bus???
why is it only another women (who probably already has her kids and baggage on the bus )??
what is it with men and the total lack of gental men these days???

Most women aren't too happy to be helped by a complete stranger in case he turns out be a stalker/rapist/pedafile (can't spell). So to avoid any possible pending lawsuits most guys just stick to their own affairs rather than be mistaken as a stalker/rapist/pedafile.

cajun_tiger

thats bull...

how does an offer

"do you need a hand"

come across as that???

Blub2k4

cajun_tiger wrote:

thats bull...

how does an offer

"do you need a hand"

come across as that???

You'd be very surprised.
People dont trust people in cities anymore.

Cactus Col

it's all bull

as I have both helped, and seen other dudes helping women get on and off buses with baby carriages.

but it is my experience that women are worese than men for not letting people seat down, e.g. putting all their shopping on the inside seat and then leaving it there as bus fills up, and younger women / girls are more likely to rush into a seat that's being vacated.

pickarooney

cajun_tiger wrote:

thats bull...

how does an offer

"do you need a hand"

come across as that???

Sounds like an axe-murderer trying to offload some body parts to me.

Ph3n0m

cajun_tiger wrote:

heres a question right

why don't men either help a women laiden with buggy baby shopping get on a bus???
why is it only another women (who probably already has her kids and baggage on the bus )??
what is it with men and the total lack of gental men these days???

you are obviously getting on the wrong types of buses - personally I have always helped people in those circumstances (old people with shopping bags, single parents tryingto juggle baby and large prams) - for me its just habit that I do it

banquo

cajun_tiger wrote:

what is it with men and the total lack of gental men these days???

sad but true. the total lack of chivalry in guys these days is, to me at least, totally incomprehensible. and im talking the basic stuff, like walking a girl home, holding a door open, letting them sit down first [call it chauvenist if you like but i had it beaten into me as a kid], or even just, y'know, being friendly.

pisses me right orf.

Blub2k4

Hmm where're all the feminists now?

ChRoMe

Good man Bulb. You women wanted equality and got it. Live with it. Why should you get special treatment?

I'll walk you home, open your doors, pull out your chair etc etc. When I come home to a hot dinner on the table

ChRoMe

bringitdown

Whooooshhhh - have I travelled back in time?

Would you guys help a man struggling with a pram, or can you see the POINT?

/edit, I am of course, referring to a father struggling to get his childs pram on board a bus etc. and not other types of pram struggling....